02481nas a2200217   4500000000100000008004100001653003400042653003000076653004000106653002100146653002400167653003700191653003100228653002400259100002800283245010700311300001000418490000800428520180700436022002002243                                       d10aAuthorized heritage discourse10aCritical heritage studies10aHeritage mediation and facilitation10aHeterodox theory10aintangible heritage10aParticipatory research in action10aPerformativity of heritage10aTheory of practices1 aJ. Dziadowiec-Greganić00aIntangible heritage research in action. Critical, participatory and mediative-facilitative perspective  a41-730 v1043 aThe article introduces the new paradigm that is still relatively unpopular in Poland - both in anthropology and in other disciplines researching cultural heritage in different ways, and interdisciplinary critical heritage studies formed on its basis. They assume, among others, that heritage as a process is a practice centered on the past, implemented in the present and concentrated mostly on the future. It is intangible in its nature so it should be perceived more in terms of a verb than a noun. However, the main purpose of the article is a recommendation of a new methodology in anthropological heritage research inspired by the above critical turn and understood not as an alternative but as supplementing and completing other approaches. Based on heterodox theory and on authorized heritage discourses analyzes, it examines them according to performative, praxeological, mediative-facilitative, and participatory (in action) approaches. Basing on the syncretic research perspective that I suggest, which consists of the selected examples from my own research, I try to show the currently changing role of an anthropologist, who was previously perceived as a “translator”, interpreter and an arbitrator, and now becomes a broker-assistant. As a result, the perception of depositaries changes. They are no longer merely researched, educated, activated, and then monitored according to national and international recommendations and directives based primarily on UNESCO and EU policies that they should implement. Heterodox, participative and mediation-facilitative heritage research puts them in the role of co-explorers, co-researchers and equal, active players who have a real impact on the co-creation and development of the national and global system of intangible heritage safeguarding.  a00761435 (ISSN)